Harlan
10,446 people in the United States were counted with the surname Harlan in the 2020 census, making it the 3,357th most common in the country. That is about one person in 28,600.
By the numbers
- People
- 10,446
- Rank
- 3,357th
- How common
- 1 in 28,600
- Per 100,000
- 3.5
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
American contraction of Harland, from Old English har (“grey”) / hara (“hare”) + land (“land”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Harlan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Harlan
- Veit Harlan (1899–1964)German film director
- Bruce Harlan (1926–1959)American diver
- John Marshall Harlan II (1899–1971)US Supreme Court justice from 1955 to 1971
- John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911)US Supreme Court justice from 1877 to 1911
- Jan Harlan (born 1937)American film director and producer
- Kenneth Harlan (1895–1967)American actor
- Otis Harlan (1865–1940)American actor
- Thomas Harlan (1929–2010)German film director and author
People named Harlan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Harlan
Also a first name
Harlan has been given to 26,980 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1924. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.